{"id":973,"date":"2009-12-11T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/12\/11\/december-11\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T22:12:14","slug":"december-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/december-11\/","title":{"rendered":"December 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Challies gives his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/archives\/articles\/my-top-9-books-of-09.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+challies%2FXhEt+%28Challies+Dot+Com%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">top 9 books of 2009<\/a>.&#160; Though I haven&#8217;t read any of the books, my guess is that I would tend to agree with his choices.&#160; (Can I say that?) <\/p>\n<p>Andreas Kostenberger suggests his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblicalfoundations.org\/featured-posts\/best-biblicaltheological-books-of-2009\">top 10 theological books<\/a> of the year.&#160; This afternoon I bought his <em>A Theology of John&#8217;s Gospel and Letters<\/em> for half price.<\/p>\n<p>When I read Al Mohler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2009\/12\/08\/the-kindle-experience-a-personal-report\/\">review of the Kindle<\/a>, I think&#8230;this guy has too much money.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I wrote a post on my other blog that is more typical of what I would post here.&#160; If you don&#8217;t normally read there, you might want to read that one (on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bibleplaces.com\/2009\/12\/star-of-bethlehem.html\">star of Bethlehem<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If you know Country Music, you &#8216;ll probably like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jIQUqAat-os\">this spoof<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And thinking of country music reminds me of two of our friends from Spring 07 who are driving out from California just to see us this weekend.&#160; We know who loves us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challies gives his top 9 books of 2009.&#160; Though I haven&#8217;t read any of the books, my guess is that I would tend to agree with his choices.&#160; (Can I say that?) Andreas Kostenberger suggests his top 10 theological books of the year.&#160; This afternoon I bought his A Theology of John&#8217;s Gospel and Letters\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/december-11\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}